Every family shares streaming services, but not all share them equally.
In a post on Reddit, an anonymous woman writes that she and her live-in boyfriend were subscribed to several streaming services, though have started cutting back in recent months due to inactivity and the choice to use their money elsewhere.
However, “he lets his parents and sisters use it,” she continues. A few months ago, the couple dropped Disney+, but since, “his mom always talks about shows she wants to watch and that we should start paying it again.”
The drama was minimal, until this weekend when “we decided to cancel our Netflix too cause again, we weren’t using it,” the woman writes. “We decided if there is ever something we want to watch on there, then we will get it again.”
That’s when things got sticky.
“So his aunt calls,” the woman writes, “and starts lecturing him about his finances and that he shouldn’t spend so much money that he doesn’t have enough left to pay for the Netflix, that she is using it and needs him to pay.”
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“I am there so I say, ‘Tell her she can pay it, that you can change the card information and that she can pay if she wants to use it,’ ” the woman adds. But that didn’t sit well with the aunt, who then called the mother. Now, they’re both mad at the girlfriend, alleging she is “forcing” her boyfriend to “spend all his money on me so he cant pay for the things they need.”
So, the woman asks, is she in the wrong?
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No, commenters agree, offering their two cents, as well.
“His family sounds like an absolute nightmare,” writes one. “I hope you don’t have to be in contact with them often.”
Adds another, “I’m going to give you an iron-clad guarantee: these moochers will always mooch, and he will always have a ready excuse to mollify you. Does he tell them how to run their finances? That they should be responsible if they have WANTS, not needs? He shouldn’t care what *anyone* thinks about his spending, except you. The fact that he does is a major red flag.”
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